Any one interested in the oiling mods I did?

The reason you oil up the left side is...manifold...lol.

1) You (me) need to feed the pushrods/rockers. That is a must on a W7+ headed engine.

2) You can feed #1 off of the left side as above. As I said above, a really balanced oil system would feed another main (maybe #3) off the left galley, too. Feeding the #1 off the left really helps unload the right side galley by a big percentage.

3) A while back, an Aussie on this thread posted something I've always done, and agreed with - even on a solid lifter engine, it's a good practice to feed some oil to the lifter bore. High loads, high speeds go well with a little pressure fed oil. Way better than counting on 'drip' oiling alone.

4) The lifers I have are Crane Ultra and they have pin oiling which comes from the pressure in the lifter galley. I positioned my lifter bore oil holes so the oil hole in the lifter body aligns during the time the lifter is on the base circle.


On windage, that is another topic that has been on the back of my mind. We're improving that by reducing cam oiling and lifter bore leakage. Bu I have to wonder...all this extra oil we're sending to the mains, and rods especially, could be more feed for windage issues. I guess it could be argued that the rods and main are gonna leak the same either way and we're just making sure they never lack oil.